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G. M. BALLARD 8v S. MASN.

TRUNK CATCH.

Patented Oct. 22, 1889.

WITNESSES:

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GEORGE BALLARD AND SAMUEL MASON, OF NEWARK, NEV JERSEY;

SAID MASON 4ASSIGrNOR TO SAID BALLARD.

' TRUNK-CATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,430, dated October 22, 1889.

'Application tiled I anuary 18, 1389. Serial No. 296,709. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE M. BALLARD and SAMUEL MASON, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunk-Catches; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speciiication.

The object of our invention is 'to avoid the breaking of the castings of trunkecatches when riveting them to a trunk, to simplify the construction, and to reduce the number of parts and also the cost of manufacture.

The invention consists in providing' a catch with a wroughtiron rivet instead of a cast rivet; also, in making the spring seat or rest integral with the case, and in the combinations and arrangements of parts thereof, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and iinally embodied in the clauses of the claim.`

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several fig` ures, Figure l is afront view ofthe catch detached from a trunk. Fig.` 2 is a central vertical section of the saine through line Fig. 3 is a'front View of a mold or pattern of a modified form of the plate to be attached to the body of the trunk, the contour being slightly dilferent from the one shown in Fig. l, and showing a sliding core in position. Fig. 4l is a rear view of Fig. 3 as a complete casting; and Fig. 5 is a central vertical section though line y, Fig. 4.

In said drawings, a is a Icasting or plate to be attached to the top or cover of a trunk, provided with wrought-iron rivet or pin b and screw or nail holes c to receive pins, rivets, or screws to aid in securing and to prevent th'e plate from turning on the rivet when riveted to the cover. This plate is also provided with a ytongue CZ and socket e in the usual manner. To the body of the trunk is secured in any desired manner a plate or case f, provided with a cross-bar g, made in-` tegral therewith as a rest or seat and support for a spring h. The lower or outer end of the spring is shown in Fig. l as resting upon a seat 1I, as generally employed, while in Figs. 4 and 5, by our improved construction, this end of the spring rests upon an inwardlyprojecting' seat or shelf 7-, made integral withthe casting, as will be hereinafter described.

IVithin the case f is pivoted a catch fm, controlled and held in position by the spring 71, as shown in Fig. 2. Thel lower end of this catch is provided with an eccentric and eX- tended bearings, which turn in sockets fn.. (Shown in Figs. et and 5.) The upper end of this catch is provided with an inwardly-projecting portion l, (shown in Fig. 2,) to enter the socket e of the tongue when the catch is closed. The upper part of the case is above the opening in which the catch rests when closed, and forms a passageway 2 when api plied to a trunk to guide the tongue into proper position for engagement with the catch.

In trunk-catches as heretofore made the central pin or rivet for securing the plate to the cover has formed a part of the casting of the plate itselfz'. c., cast upon the plate. When this cast pin breaks in the operation of riveting, as it frequently does, the whole plate becomes useless and has to be tornolf and thrown away, entailing loss, &c.

In our improved catch` this pin or rivet is of wrought-iron and is placed in the sand in proper position after the plate is molded, and in making the cast the molten metal flows around it and securely holds it in position. Instead of having the rivet placed in the mold, as described, the plate can be cast with a rivet-hole, and then the rivet can be iirmly swaged in position and answer the purpose equally as wel-l. Thus the loss by breakage is avoided.

The crossebar, upon which one end of the spring rests in .our improved catch, is made integral with the body of the case and is recessed and shouldered, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to securely hold the upper or inward end of the spring in position. The seat or rest for the lower or outer end of the spring may also be made integral with the case, as shown in Fig. 5. To accomplish this the mold or pattern is formed with a sliding core, (shown at s, Fig. 3,) which is withdrawn before Casting, thus forming a rest or seat, as shown at 7c, Fig. 5, and avoiding the opening in the plate, as in the plate first described.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letn ters Patent, is-

l. A tongue or hasp-plate of a trunk-catch, provided with an independent pin of malleable metal, one end of said pin being,` firmly secured in said hasp by oasi-ing the body of the hasp around said end, the other end being adapted to serve as a rivet to secure said hasp to the trunk, as described, and for the purposes set forth.

'2. In a trunk-catch, the combination, with the oase-body thereof, of a cross-bar within said body at its upper end and made integral have hereunto set our hands this 16th day of 3o January, 1889.

GEORGE M. BALLARD. SAMUEL MASON. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, E. L. SHERMAN. 

